Catálogo de libros: Estudios del desarrollo

3097 Catálogo de libros: Estudios del desarrollo

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  • The Fourth Industrial Revolution in Africa
    This edited volume, the third in a three-volume set, discusses implications of The Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR) in Africa. By rebuilding natural ecosystems, linking billions to digital networks, and better managing assets, the world may be able to undo the damage done by the industrial revolutions. There are, however, significant concerns that institutions will not be abl...
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    47,30 €

  • Multifaceted Development
    Imtiaz A. Hussain
    This book focuses on the modernization of Bangladesh. It does so by including case studies at the national and sub-national government levels and comparative studies with other countries.Chapters in the book highlight how a number of aspects have been affected in the modernization process, such as the adoption of ’western’ curriculum and English language in schools, the use of ...
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    48,27 €

  • Multifaceted Development
    Imtiaz A. Hussain
    This book focuses on the modernization of Bangladesh. It does so by including case studies at the national and sub-national government levels and comparative studies with other countries.Chapters in the book highlight how a number of aspects have been affected in the modernization process, such as the adoption of ’western’ curriculum and English language in schools, the use of ...
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    171,28 €

  • China’s Trade Policy in Latin America
    This book examines China’s trade insertion strategy in Latin America. Divided into five parts, the book features scholars from China, Chile, Costa Rica, Peru, and Mexico who present the main actors and dynamics around China’s trade policy in the region in twelve carefully selected contributions, with qualitative and quantitative case studies. Highlighting China’s important trad...
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    148,36 €

  • Intellectual Property Law in Africa
    Caroline B. Ncube
    Examining the harmonisation of Intellectual Property policy, law and administration in Africa, this book evaluates the effectiveness of efforts to establish continental Intellectual Property institutions and frameworks. ...
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    227,35 €

  • Gender, Sexuality and the UN’s SDGs
    Against the backdrop of Covid-19, this edited volume will utilize a gendered lens to explore the United Nation’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), with a clear focus on challenging the omission of sexuality in relation to the SDGs as well as analyzing the ways in which the SDGs are also equally relevant for Western countries. While acknowledging the importance of these goal...
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    156,78 €

  • The Project in International Development
    Caitlin Scott
    The project has become fundamental to international development and humanitarian practice, playing a key role in defining objectives, funding streams and ultimately determining what success looks like. This book provides a much-needed overview of the project in international development practice, guiding the reader through the latest theoretical debates, and exploring the core ...
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    60,03 €

  • The Project in International Development
    Caitlin Scott
    The project has become fundamental to international development and humanitarian practice, playing a key role in defining objectives and funding streams. This book provides an overview of the project in international development practice, exploring the core tools and stages of planning and design. ...
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    241,29 €

  • Theorising Urban Development From the Global South
    This edited volume brings together debates from the Global South and Global East to explore alternatives to conventional planning in Southern cities. Embracing the evolving post-colonial theory, the volume offers ’fragments’ of the urban that provide clues to the larger, often-repeated ontological question that continues to hold: Why and what does theory from the South mean? Th...
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    124,04 €

  • Regional Innovation Evolution
    Chunbing Bao / Qinyue Zheng
    This book covers many aspects of innovation theory, evolutionary economics, economic geography, and simulation models. It is one of the first books to comprehensively and systematically focus on the evolution of regional innovation based on provincial experience in emerging economics, including stylized facts, theoretical explanation, and simulation. The book is devoted to a pi...
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    148,15 €

  • Routledge Readings on Colonial to Contemporary Northeastern India
    Sumi Krishna
    Routledge Readings on Northeastern India: Colonial Encounters, Customary Practices, Gender, Livelihoods presents some of the finest essays on a region that stretches across the Northeastern Himalaya, eight Indian States and many tribal and non-tribal peoples. ...
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    213,36 €

  • Routledge Readings on Security and Governance in Northeastern India
    Sumi Krishna
    Routledge Readings on Security and Governance in Northeastern India: Resource Conflicts, Militarisation and Development Challenges presents some of the finest essays on a region that stretches across the Northeastern Himalaya, eight Indian States and many tribal and non-tribal peoples. ...
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    213,43 €

  • High-Speed Railways and New Structure of Socio-economic Development in China
    Xiaoyan Lin / Yanqing Chen / Yuntao Zhu
    This book systematically expounds the significance of the high-speed railway in China’s regional economic and social development. It also contains a large number of case discussions, so that readers can fully understand the development of China’s high-speed railway and its role in promoting China’s economy. The purpose of this book is to determine whether high-speed railway has...
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    47,53 €

  • Impact of Disruptive Technologies on the Socio-Economic Development of Emerging Countries
    Global emergencies, such as the COVID-19 pandemic and environmental concerns, have challenged the readiness of societies and forced them to operate in more innovative ways. In response, the world has witnessed new technologies emerge and researchers continually finding better solutions to cope with these situations. It is crucial that these innovations are investigated so that ...
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    294,95 €

  • Impact of Disruptive Technologies on the Socio-Economic Development of Emerging Countries
    Global emergencies, such as the COVID-19 pandemic and environmental concerns, have challenged the readiness of societies and forced them to operate in more innovative ways. In response, the world has witnessed new technologies emerge and researchers continually finding better solutions to cope with these situations. It is crucial that these innovations are investigated so that ...
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    222,57 €

  • Climate Security in the Anthropocene
    The speed and scale of climate change presents unique and potentially monumental security implications for individuals, future generations, international institutions and states. Long-dominant security paradigms and policies may no longer be appropriate for dealing with these new security risks of the Anthropocene. In response to this phenomenon, this book investigates how stat...
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    112,08 €

  • The Palgrave Handbook of New Directions in Kashmir Studies
    The Palgrave Handbook of New Directions in Kashmir Studies provides a comprehensive, interdisciplinary and transregional perspective on the Kashmir dispute. Spanning South and Central Asia, Kashmir has been at the center of geopolitical conflicts and rivalries among India, Pakistan and China for decades, with members of heterogeneous local communities negotiating the complexiti...
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    46,76 €

  • Understanding Diaspora Development
    This book brings together new research that engages with the concept of diaspora from a uniquely Australian perspective and provides a timely contribution to the development of research-informed policy, both in the Australian context and more broadly. It builds on the understanding of the complex drivers and domains of diaspora transnationalism and its implications for countrie...
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    160,70 €

  • Europe-Central Asia Relations
    This book addresses the current state of economic and political development within Central Asia and the importance of European countries and organizations as international actors and supranational organizations for the Central Asian Region (CAR). It aims to provide a better understanding of Central Asia’s multi-faceted relations in rapidly evolving geostrategic dynamics and ser...
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    159,17 €

  • Europe-Central Asia Relations
    This book addresses the current state of economic and political development within Central Asia and the importance of European countries and organizations as international actors and supranational organizations for the Central Asian Region (CAR). It aims to provide a better understanding of Central Asia’s multi-faceted relations in rapidly evolving geostrategic dynamics and ser...
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    48,04 €

  • Indigenous Intergenerational Resilience
    Lewis Williams
    This book argues that there is a need to develop greater indigenous-led intergenerational resilience in order to meet the challenges posed by contemporary crises of climate change, cultural clashes, and adversity. ...
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    73,29 €

  • Brazilian Elites and their Philanthropy
    Jessica Sklair
    This book explores the philanthropy of Brazilian elites during a key period in recent Brazilian history, from Workers Party president Lula’s last term in office through to the election of far-right president Jair Bolsonaro. ...
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    73,51 €

  • Industrial Policy and the Transformation of the Colonial Economy in Africa
    Horman Chitonge
    This book analyses the role industrial policy can play in the transformation of African economies, outlining a specific type of industrial policy, Frontier Industrial Policy as an instrument for transformation. The book will be of interest to researchers across Economics, Development, Postcolonial Studies and African Studies. ...
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    72,99 €

  • Health Norms and the Governance of Global Development
    Anders Granmo / Pieter Fourie
    This book maps the emergence of health in global development discourse and governance since 1990. It argues that health norms have emerged, diffused, and subsequently become internalised through the various direct and indirect negotiation processes that created the global development goals. ...
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    70,44 €

  • The Politics of Anti-Corruption Agencies in Latin America
    Joseph Pozsgai-Alvarez
    This book will be a key resource for researchers across political science, corruption studies, development, and Latin American Studies. It will also be valuable guide for policy makers and professionals in NGOs and international organizations working on anti-corruption advocacy and policy advice. ...
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    72,94 €

  • Comparing Police Corruption
    Leslie Holmes
    This book analyses police corruption across four country case studies. It will be of considerable interest to students and researchers across corruption studies, criminology, police studies, and security studies, as well as practitioners working in anti-corruption and law enforcement agencies. ...
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    73,32 €

  • Foreign Aid and Development in South Korea and Africa
    Jiyoung Kim / Kelechi A. Kalu
    This book compares the rapid development of South Korea over the past seventy years with selected countries in sub-Saharan Africa to assess what factors contributed to the country’s success story, and why it is that countries which were comparable in the past continue to experience challenges in achieving and sustaining economic growth. ...
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    73,05 €

  • Rethinking Copyright for Sustainable Human Development
    Sileshi Bedasie Hirko
    This book explores the interface between copyright and higher education, and their complementarities for the advancement of sustainable human development. The concept of human development defines the freedoms and human capabilities that are essential for human flourishing. ...
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    73,33 €

  • Routledge Handbook of Asian Cities
    Richard Hu
    This handbook provides the most comprehensive examination of Asian cities - developed and developing, large and small - and their urban development. ...
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    334,26 €

  • Remapping Security on Europe’s Northern Borders
    This book critically analyses the changing EU-Russian security environment in the wake of the Ukraine crisis, with a particular focus on northern Europe where the EU and the Russian Federation share a common border. ...
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    73,23 €